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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

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Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year?  Iraq's Horrors by the Numbers

Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year? Iraq’s Horrors by the Numbers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Human Rights Commission of Iraq, a body attached to the Iraqi parliament, issued statistics on […]

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Human Rights
A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

VICE News | (Video Report) | – – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and […]

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Iran
Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – “Saudi Arabia’s perceived need to keep Iran at bay is distracting it from […]

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Arab Spring
ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

Elliot Hill | (The LipTV Video) | – – “With ISIS rampaging through Syria and Iraq, and a generational shift in politics and religion happening […]

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Acidification of Oceans
How each State in the Union can have 100% Green Energy by 2050:  The Stanford Plan

How each State in the Union can have 100% Green Energy by 2050: The Stanford Plan

By Bjorn Carey | ( Stanford News Service) | – –

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Barack Obama
Modest Increase in Iraq Training Mission shows Obama still Uninterested & Maybe he's Right

Modest Increase in Iraq Training Mission shows Obama still Uninterested & Maybe he’s Right

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – The Obama administration got itself some headlines on Wednesday morning by pledging to send a few hundred […]

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Apartheid
It isn't Israel that is being "delegitimized" but the Occupation of Palestine

It isn’t Israel that is being “delegitimized” but the Occupation of Palestine

By: John V. Whitbeck | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – June 5 marked the 48th anniversary of the “preemptive” attack on Egypt with which […]

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Bush
Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail

Donald Rumsfeld Blames Bush For Iraq Democracy Fail

Mark Sovel & Elliot Hill | (The Lip TV – Video) | – – “Donald Rumsfeld said George W. Bush was wrong about Iraq in […]

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Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel and Directing Rosewater:  "It Turns out the Middle East is Somewhat of a Hotbed"

Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel and Directing Rosewater: “It Turns out the Middle East is Somewhat of a Hotbed”

By Alexander Bisley | (Lumiere Reader) | – – N.B. Rosewater is now streaming at Amazon Instant Video and will be available on Netflix beginning […]

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